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One approach to this problem is called the Handle System.

http://www.handle.net/

It's like DNS except individual identifiers can be managed independently (imagine if example.com/foo and example.com/bar were managed by two different companies).

One problem that it does not address is human-friendliness. Identifiers all start with a handle prefix that's a number like 10.1109/ or 10000.1/.

Though, the latest release of the software will map DNS names to handle prefixes.

It's interesting technology and quite robust. For $50 a year you can host as many handles as you want.




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